For the second time in three years, Kirby Smart and Georgia football have landed the top ranked recruiting class in the country.
And that’s if you go by 247Sports team rankings. If you look at Rivals’ rankings, the Bulldogs have actually finished with the No. 1 ranked class three years in a row now.
That’s simply incredible. What Kirby has built in his short time in Athens is something that Georgia fans should never take for granted.
Before Kirby came, Mark Richt was doing a fine job in recruiting – consistently finishing anywhere between that No. 5 and No. 12 spot. But it just was not good enough, especially at Georgia, where even if you don’t want to leave your state to recruit you can still finish with a top-five class.
So Kirby came and he elevated recruiting to where we expect it to be. And look at Florida?
“We’re closing the gap! We’re closing the gap!”
Actually, no Gators, you’re not. Georgia is consistently finishing with the top ranked class in the country while in Gainesville they are celebrating the No. 8 ranked class. No. 8 is something to be excited about, sure. But think about the difference in talent between a No. 1 and a No. 8. The gap is not closing.
Recruiting is one of those things that get people so fired up that it’s actually hard to scroll through Twitter on big recruiting days. 50 year old men and women arguing with each other about where a 17 year old kid wants to go to college is…weird. But it’s college football. But man is it weird, too.
If you’re a Georgi fan, you’re loving every minute of Kirby on the recruiting trail. If you’re a rival, say Auburn or Florida, you despise Kirby for tasking your top recruits. Everybody will claim Georgia cheats, or whatever they’ll say to make themselves feel better.
But the reality of it is that Kirby and the Bulldogs spend the most money nationwide on recruiting expenses, they put in the most time and they build the best and quickest relationships with these prospects.
Following another day in which Georgia wrapped a ribbon on its No. 1 ranked class, elating DawgNation and pissing off the rest of America, I went through Twitter to take a look at the good tweets and the not-so-nice tweets.
The bad…
